SmartNotes:
The challenge
SmartNotes
You have done some successful business throughout the year. You have placed
innovative products in the markets. You won new clients and made your money. And
Heaving a
clear head is just
a click away.
[ The perfect solution for the preparation of your financial report ]
now you‘ve got the challenge to prepare your financial report. Regarding content and
formality, information has to be one hundred percent correct and consistent in
compliance with the regulations. Additionally changes need to be included and
validated in the running process, sometimes even shortly before your publication.
So preparing a financial report takes a lot of efforts. SmartNotes provides you with
the possibility to minimise them. Starting with the data import, adapting data and
text and preparing the final report. All the time consuming and manual work will be
done by SmartNotes, so that you can concentrate on what‘s really important: doing
business.
The solution
SmartNotes by AMANA consulting is the perfect solution to optimize the
process of [financial] report creation. By using this flexible and user-friendly content
management system it‘s easy to create any external or internal report needed.
Creating a quarterly or annual report to meet your regulatory requirements, a PowerPoint presentation for the executive or supervisory board or a XBRL instance, it‘s as
easy as the click of a button.
Amana consulting GmbH
Veronikastraße 36, 45131 Essen, Germany
SmartN0tes
www.amana-consulting.de
Version 3.0
Group
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Units
Accounting Guidelines
Data Collection
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Data Collection
Data Collection
Data Adjustment on group level
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Reporting Package
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Consolidation
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SmartNotes
Annual report
_ Flexible interfaces
_ Tracking of data changes
SmartNotes provides you with a highly flexible import processor. It allows you to
After a data import all data changes are explicitly highlighted. So you can easily
import data from nearly all kind of source systems, e.g. RFC, Web-Service or
identify each and every data change in texts and tables. Additionally all data changes
Flat-File import. After an import all the data in texts and tables are automatically
are documented at all times so that there is a consistent full audit trail of all changes
updated. Data changes in your consolidation or accounting system can be updated in your
applied.
[financial] report by the push of a button, every time you want. In addition to the
automated data import, data can also be included manually. All manual data or
_ Validating and rounding the imported data
manual changes are clearly identifiable as such.
SmartNotes validates the consistency of imported data. In doing so, the software
ensures that coherences are displayed consistently; this allows you to recognise
_ Supporting the workflow
rounding differences immediately in a condenced overwiev. Using the integrations
In SmartNotes it is possible to define your own, individual workflow. User and user
rounding functionality you can easily eliminate all identified rounding differences.
group permissions like “read only” or “write” can be linked to single process steps. By
that internal directives or compliance requirements can be easily met. Additionally
bottlenecks can be identified at an early stage and actively prevented and defining
_ Integrated XBRL processor
single processing steps clarifies responsibilities for all parties involved.
SmartNotes uses an integrated XBRL processor which supports “tagging” the report
data via drag-and-drop. In doing so, you can generate an XBRL instance with the
latest figures at the push of a button. Validation routines assist the transmission of
XBRL instances that are correct in terms of content and formality, e.g. SEC Filings,
E-Balance Solvency II, FINREP | COREP | Solvency 2 or the elekronische Bundesanzeiger.
Amana consulting GmbH
Veronikastraße 36, 45131 Essen, Germany
www.amana-consulting.de
[ Illustration above ] Process of building financial reports
flexible and …
user friendly.
The advantages
_Single Point of Truth
SmartNotes provides you to streamline your procedures, cut your costs and minimize
No more emailing of different report versions or any supporting material. It‘s all
your manual work. Your process improvement is our goal:
included in SmartNotes.
_High degree of transparency
_Easy layout setup
Transparent interfaces between any data source presystem and the SmartNotes
SmartNotes provides an easy way to layout your glossy report. Using a design agency
software enables you to monitor the dataflow and control data consistency within your
becomes optional and will considerably cut your costs.
output formats.
_ Sophisticated authorisation concept
_ High degree of integration
A detailed authorization concept allows you to define different user roles and groups.
All relevant data is perfectly integrated into your MS Office [Word, Excel & Power-
It also offers the possibility of limiting or extending the access to certain functions or
Point] reports by the interplay of software and interface. Additionally it reduces the
chapters within SmartNotes and included reports.
amount of manual work and duplication of data processing?.
_Reduced error margin
Automatic validations, references and calculations, as well as preliminary aggregations, reduce the probability of errors and inconsistencies.
Contact Persons:
thorsten.funke @ amana-consulting.de T
+49_201.946 228 77 M
+49_162.25 888 77
joerg.ringelstein @ amana-consulting.de T
+49_201.946 228 88 M
+49_162.58 888 88
christian.groove @ amana-consulting.de T
+49_201.946 228 66 M
+49_162.25 888 66
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+49_201.946 228 85 M
+49_162.25 888 85